USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -“Pull” factors included encouraging reports of good wages and living conditions that spread by word of mouth and that appeared in African American newspapers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow.

Detailed explanation-3: -A variety of push factors and pull factors were the cause of this massive migration. Blacks were “pushed” by Jim Crow law, rampant discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement, and lack of employment in the South and “pulled” by growing employment rates, industrialism and relative tolerance in the North.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some moved North in search of respite from Jim Crow laws, racial animosity, and vigilante violence in the Southern States. Others were seeking economic opportunities and alternatives to agricultural work. Many simply wanted to be reunited with friends, family, and fellow church members who had arrived earlier.